Monday, June 30, 2008

It rained



Symptom: bad reception
Cure: some might wear just underwear and do a little dance.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

pro: blem, active, tean



On-line profile: insert image here.
On-line profiterole: cut to resemble swans (in some regions).

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

In...of a broken...



Reading: someone who (approached) beating you to it.
Thinking: of what you have to say.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

A calmer approach to new vocabularies



Phonetics: long a, short a.
Foreign universities: how much ethics do engineers actually take?

Friday, June 20, 2008

S.W.A.K.



Eh Oh!: ça veut dire quoi...Swak? Je te respecte et tout, mais, c'est un truc nazi ou quoi?
Ben: F.Y.I., sealed with a kiss. C'est un machin plutôt bébé je crois. Chépasmoi.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Some things are



Exuberance: check out the too good to be true; they might be true. There aren't only scoundrels and gangsters.
Potlatch: architects, mentors, colleagues, and cousins: impending arrivals.

Sunday, June 15, 2008

It's not easy being green



Symptom: unruly habits.
Cure: fiction. and politics.

Saturday, June 14, 2008

3 hour naps



Symptom: the internet is destroying your brain.
Cure: seaside repose, or this strange thing called the lakeside. Flaubert.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Fruit on Stilts II or How to Prepare Manuscripts



a. get to work.
b. do not name your work The Woman Who Wasn't.
c. never, under any consideration, use colored or decorated paper.

Monday, June 9, 2008

Fruit on Stilts or How to Think Clearly



1. Science knows no magic power by which a tiny white terrier can be immediately transformed into a massive tawny St. Bernard. And there is none through which a congenial idiot or a low grade moron can be changed into a philosophic genius. --Grace Adams (c. 1928)

2. Chances are you had to be there.

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Facts You Should Know About Heat*



Observation 1: Upon arising in the morning if we step out on a tile floor we say it feels cold, whereas a rug will feel much warmer to the bare foot.

Observation 2: Oil may be burned on the top of a lake of water and the temperature of the water an inch or so below the surface will remain practically unaltered.

Question: Will someone discover a method whereby we can utilize all of the sun's gift of energy? That is one of the unanswered questions of the century.

*Lawrence A. Barrett, B.S., 1928

Friday, June 6, 2008

Mollo, mollo



Post-post status: passé-composé, paralysis, grief, elation, disbelief, donner contre...
Future post-post status: futur antérieur, action, retrospective, spatial, donner sur...

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

ahorseyouare



Wind: over one-hundred years of experience.
City: so much blitz.

Monday, June 2, 2008

Complimentary



Knotted: things will work themselves out.
Snarled: don't worry; it's been a long time.